Education and Career Development

We Want You to Advance Your Career – Right Here

We value education and support our associates’ career aspirations through established career ladders within many disciplines, including Nursing, Food & Nutrition, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and our Laboratory professionals, just to name a few. We understand the value our associates bring to the organization and our ability to meet our patients’ needs. When you succeed professionally, everyone benefits.

Hospital Orientation for New Associates

All new associates attend Hospital Orientation on their first day. Executives and leaders from across the organization will share with you an organization overview, the patient experience and key information for a successful career at Georgetown.

New Manager Orientation

Anyone hired or promoted into a supervisor, manager or director role is expected to attend New Manager Orientation. This program provides associates in supervisory roles the tools they need to effectively and efficiently execute the managerial role.

MedStar Organizational Effectiveness

MedStar “OE” is to be a catalyst for organizational learning and development. This corporate department works collaboratively with clients as business partners and as a resource for enhancing individual, departmental and organizational effectiveness.

Courses offered include MedStar Leader of the Future, theGood to Great Performance Management series, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, From Peer to Boss among others.

Highly Reliable Organization

MedStar Georgetown University Hospital has long been committed to delivering the highest levels of quality and safety to its patients. What is a High Reliability Organization? A HRO is an organization that succeeds in avoiding catastro­phes in an environment where normal accidents may occur due to various risk factors and the complexity of its systems. All Georgetown associates receive a full day training on the principles of an HRO which includes valuable lessons about the importance of high reliability, and focused on three “ab­solutes” that help maintain a strong safety culture:

Put Safety First (Safety is the first consideration in everything we do.)

Build Accountability (Leaders must ensure accountability in a fair and just culture.)

Find and Fix Problems (Encour­age event reporting and seek

Educational Assistance

MedStar Georgetown is committed to providing assistance for associates to further their education. Educational assistance is available for obtaining a degree, or maintaining a current credential required for your position.

Magnet® recognition is a distinction granted to hospitals for quality patient care, nursing excellence, and innovations in professional nursing practice. Research shows achieving Magnet status benefits nurses, health care organizations, and the communities they serve through increased nurse and patient satisfaction, an ability to attract and retain top nursing talent, and improved clinical outcomes for patients. MedStar Georgetown is proud to have been the first Magnet hospital in Washington, D.C. Learn more.